by cutting-edge-publishing | Jan 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
You have heard of Charles Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities. “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” I must tell you my tale of two names. In my case, the worst of times applies. My mother gave me a first name that has haunted me most of my life: Gösta. She...
by cutting-edge-publishing | Jan 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale 1800 Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to the Baptists of Danbury that lays out the need for a separation between church and state: “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he...
by cutting-edge-publishing | Jan 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
Image Credit: Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom Our ancestors, such as Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo Naledi, Denisovans, Homo neanderthal, and more, had a sense of and belief in an afterlife. We know this from how they treated their dead by...
by cutting-edge-publishing | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Friends, I will have a two-man art show with my Father, Vladimir Iwasiuk, and myself at the Santa Paula Art Museum on January 17, 4-6 PM, 117 10th Street. The “art gene” is usually uni-generational; thus, there are very few father-son art exhibits. My father’s...
by cutting-edge-publishing | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Surgery is a specialty that creates a unique bond between the patient and the doctor. The surgeon uses various cutting devices to enter spaces in the body that were not designed to be entered. This opens the door to unforeseen and unexpected results, not always good....
by cutting-edge-publishing | Dec 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Monteverde, Giulio; Edward Jenner (1749-1823) and Child; Science Museum Group; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/edward-jenner-17491823-and-child-293200 Vaccination was introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796. He had noted that milkmaids who had a mild disease called cowpox...
